André Príncipe vive e trabalha em Lisboa, Portugal. Estudou Psicologia na Universidade do Porto, tendo-se formado também em Cinema na London Film School/ Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian em 2015 e na Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema de Lisboa em 2001. É fotógrafo, editor, cineasta, também fundador e co-editor da editora de livros Pierre von Kleist. No seu trabalho artístico, André Príncipe não dá apenas conta da sua própria experiência com aquilo que o rodeia através da fotografia, o artista privilegia o lado diarístico, omnipresente desta, no sentido em que a fotografia enquanto prática faz parte da vida: compõe-a, pensa-a, é um “eu-no mundo”.
André Príncipe is an artist working in Lisbon, Portugal. His work could be conceived of by thinking through the tenets of the documentary tradition and also the personal diary. His images feel fast and often of a nighttime passing. I would suggest that there is a brilliance to his work that advocates a condition of ephemerality. It is to satisfy Príncipe’s experience through documentation, but it also feels universal as if he wants to suggest that our lives are lived in a frenetic and fast-paced world-it is not tectonic, but more like a carousel with images popping and flashing before our eyes licensing our desires and matter of fact daily routines. In suggesting this, I am suggesting that Príncipe is a master of the understood and that perhaps what may at first read seem vainglorious, is to be understood and resolved by his humanity.